Valkyria Chronicles

Valkyria Chronicles: Showdown at Naggia (1) I didn’t get a chance to work on this battle last week. My first try at it failed, but I always need to try it once just to see what the map is like. It’s kinda fun watching all my heroes die in valorous ways, only to bring them back to life with a L)oad. Like my first attempt, I took the first camp with Rosie, then brought Alicia and Hannes around as backup. Preparing the way with Alicia’s grenade thrower, we moved into the next camp in the next two moves, which put our tanks in the field – and fielded the enemy Valkyrur. ...

Valkyria Chronicles: Recapture of Bruhl. I guess the lesson here is, CAN a map be done just by buffing Alicia up to her scarf and seeing if she can just survive the run to the end? I missed an enemy ace in a tank, but got the one in the enemy base. I guess I should go back sometime and try to get the tank ace…. It was kinda grim that Welkin and Kreis had this big conversation about how they worked well together and got the win, when neither of them had moved from their spawn spots. ...

Valkyria Chronicles: Battle at Marberry Shore I didn’t expect to get a first time “A” rank here. There was lots going on, and it wasn’t until a couple moves in that I understood the map enough to figure out the winning strategy, and even then it took a couple moves to execute it. The strat was pretty simple, in the end. With Isara’s smoke bombs providing cover, Alicia, powered up with Welkin’s orders, just, nigh-invulnerable, ran to the end camp, killed the two defenders, and took the flag. ...

Valkyria Chronicles: The Batomys is rust! I did enough skirmishes to get my lancers to elite status, but didn’t get a new weapon for doing so. I thought I would be getting some new super weapon. I went into the desert fight vs the Batomys and the Valkyrie, but it still took three shots to take out a turret. Nonetheless, I’d been to the Church of the Sniper, and I had not been slacking (too much) on their training. Every time normal enemy troops showed, I spent command points on snipers to take them down. Save/Load until every one of their shots was a kill shot. ...

Valkyria Chronicles: Grinding levels. I think the problems I’ve been having battling the Batomys dreadnought in The Battle at Barious was because my lancers were sitting around level 4 or so, my scouts and shock troopers were at 6, and my snipers and engineers were also barely leveled. Just leveling up with the missions isn’t doing the trick. So it was time to head into the skirmishes. The first skirmish can be done in a single move – actually, it can be done by a single character in a single move, but that skirmish isn’t worth much XP, so I moved on to the next one, one of the city maps I did in the campaign. I managed to finish that in three moves, which was good enough for a “B”. I looked at a cheat guide to find out how to do it in a single move – I’ve already done this map in the campaign, this is not cheating really. ...

[gallery ids=“11321,11320,11317,11318,11319,11315,11316”] Valkyria Chronicles: Battle of Barious Desert done. I’ve been working on this one for a couple of days. It’s a desert map with occasional sandstorms. The huge number of enemy lancers and light tanks makes advancing the Edelweiss an issue. I always knew this mission would have to be won by scouts circling around the back while the main force provides a distraction to the south. The commander said snipers would be important, and provided some positions for our snipers. The enemies have lots of snipers, too. Our snipers were to take out the machine gun and sniper nest above the first capture point to allow foot soldiers to come through, kill the enemy lancers and shocktroopers, and retreat to the newly captured point. ...

Valkyria Chronicles is, first and foremost, a dishonest game. It tells you what you need to know, then piles on all sorts of extraneous information in each mission that you’re mentally adding all sorts of secondary objectives that are not part of the mission. For instance, the mission I just finished had as its objective to occupy a certain point. The game then went on to talk about the benefits of occupying several other points that were on the obvious path to the objective, the paths reinforcements would take, warnings about enemies stationed on high points and so on. ...